Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.